You know... what would be interesting is if he convinced his parents to submit their data and then he had his data as a merge commit.

that's not a smartarse, that's quite genuinely funny (ymmv)

Sometimes I do not understand HN. There is the original post of the guy that posted his DNA on github.com (with the link of course) and a decent discussion on

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2211334

(5 hours ago)

and still this post is the most upvoted

If only we could truly activate noprocrast mode in our genetic code by simply changing 3 base pairs...

Imagine how much money the people who discovered it would end up making!

I don't see why Github couldn't be used to version track actual genomes of engineered small organisms... It would be great, you could curate changes that are 'virtual', changes that have been made, tested, and validated.

"Eyelids now close in proper way. Fixes issue #42." I find humor in this.

Maybe "genome" should be replaced by "a part of his genome".

For more information about the raw format used by 23 and Me: http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/23andMe

shame, I did this a few weeks ago: http://github.com/orta/dna

This guy made real changes to the genome: https://github.com/cariaso/dna

ie: removed increased risk of coronary artery disease at rs1333049

Pretty awesome

ignorance is bliss, i had to look this up since i use mercurial.

http://help.github.com/pull-requests/

makes sense now, pretty funny comment about the nipple.

This just blew my mind - mostly because it could totally happen some day.

I find those commits to be more fun (because they seem to be real thing): https://github.com/cariaso/dna/commits/

There's a huge difference between releasing his fully sequenced dna and the data from a genotyping chip.... I went to the github site expecting to see several large fasta files for each chromosome.

I'm sure he's not worried about Facebook privacy.

<insert joke about natural selection>

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